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COMBINED PRINTING PRESS AND RULING- MACHINE.

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JAMES DALE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

PATENT ()FFIcE.

ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH r JOHN MILLER, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED PRINTING-PRESS )AND RUUNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No..380,191 ,dated March 27, 1888.

Application filed J nne 10. E87. Serial No. 240,871. (No model) To all whom it may concern.-

- Be it known that I, JAMES DALE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Printing-Press and Ruling-Machine Combined; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My present invention, so far as it relates to the combination, with a printing-press, of a ruling-machine constituting the feed for the printing-press, is in the nature of an improvement upon the machine for which Letters Patent'of the United States No. 365,972 were granted me on the th day of July, 1887. My said former machine involves the passage between the form-and impression cylinders of the printing-press of the traveling strings of I the ruling-machine.

- The object of my present improvement is to provide a construction whereby the rulingmachine portion of the device may constitute the feed without requiring the strings to pass between the printing press cylinders, but whereby, on the contrary, the feed mechanism shall be disconnected from the printing-press cylinders. I

To this end this part of my invention consists, broadly, in the combination, with a rotary printing-press, of a ruling-machine driven by the printing-press, to constitute the one a feed to the other, and having the feed mechanism disconnected or separate from the cylinders of the printing-press. As in the device forming the subject of my aforesaid Letters Patent, however, the printing-press portions may be used independently of the ruling POI". tion by disconnecting the mechanismwhich produces their co-operation, and it is the printing-press which embodies the larger number of the features of improvement constitutingthe novel subject-matter of the present application, it being the objects of this part of my invention, mainly, to provide a construction of guide and carrying-tapes for the sheets from the ruling-machine,of tension or holding mechanism for the sheets atthe gate, as'also of the ink-roller mechanism, whereby a generally improved'rotary press shall be provided which shall serve for performing the job work,for which it is especially designed in contradistinction to newspaper work.

In the printing-press my invention con: sists, first, in the construction-in the sense of the arrangement-sof the feeding-tapes and guide; second, in combining with such tapes and guide a particular construction of tension orholding device for the sheets operating, while a'sheet is being carried around a cylinder of the press, to hold it taut and smooth; third, in the construction of the form-cylinder and means for securing the formsin' place upon it, and, fourth, in the mechanism for .act-.

uating the ink-rollers.

My invention also, consists in details of con.

struction and combinations of parts, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a broken view, in side elevation, of a combined ruling-machine and printing-press of my improved construction;Fig. 2, a similar enlarged View of the opposite side of the device from that presented in Fig. 1, and having the front portion of the ruling-machine feature or feed broken away;

Fig. 3, a similar view of the portion of the ruling-machine broken away from Fig. 2, and

illustrating the clutch device for throwingthe.

ruling machine out of gear with the printingpress; Fig. 4:, a side view of a detail; Fig.5, a broken view, in elevation, of the form-cylin-; der, showing its construction and illustrating the manner of and means for clamping a form A upon it; Fig. 6, a similar view of the same illustrating a modified construction; Fig. 7, an

" enlarged broken transverse section of the form cylinder provided with a' form' clamped in place by means of myimproved clamping device; Fig. 8, a perspective viewof the clamp-' ing device; Fig. 9, -a plan view of apart of the clamping device; Fig. 10, a longitudinal section of the printing-press and rear part of the ruling or feeding machine, taken on the linev mm of Fig. 11; Fig. 11, a sectional plan view taken on the line 11 11 of Fig. 10; Fig- 12, a broken sectional view of the printing-press, showing the nippers about to grasp ashe'et,

and taken at the line a; w of Fig. 11; Fig. 13, a-v

broken section taken on the line 13 13,of.-Fig.- 11; Fig. 14, asimilar view to that illustrated in Fig. 12, and also taken at the line w as of Fig. 11, but showing the cylinders in position after having made one-fourth of a revolution from the position represented in Fig. 12, with the nippers grasping the sheet; Fig. 15, a similar view to that illustrated in Fig. 13, but showing the position of the cams to correspond with the mechanism represented in Fig. 14; Fig. 16, a broken perspective view of the guide, showing means employed for adjusting it; and Fig. 17,

a section taken on the line 18 of Fig. 13 and viewed in the direction of the arrow.

A is the frame, preferably integral, for supporting all the parts of the entire device,being in the form of an oblong square, with posts or legs at the four corners, as shown, and intermediately, if required. l h

B is the ruling-machine,which constitutes the feed for the printing-press C, and is pro vided with the usual mechanism of ruling machines, including the pen device B near the front end of the frame A, and means for controlling, adjusting, and actuating it, but not described in detail in the present application, as the features referred to constitute no part of my invention,which, as hereinbefore stated, consists,as to this feature, in the manner hereinafter described of connecting with the printing-press the ruling-machine to constitute it the feed. Toward the rear end of the frame is the printing mechanism.

D and D are respectively the form and impression cylinders, the first named of which may be of the construction hereinafter described. The cylinders are geared to be driven at uniform speed from a belt-pulley, (not shown, but on the journal shown in section of the cylinder D in Fig. 2,) the gear-wheel being provided on adjacent bearings of the two cylinders, which cylinders are separable when it is desired to throw them out of gear by the throw-off mechanism D, represented in Fig. 1, but not herein described in detail, as it is the same as that shown and described in my aforesaid patent.

The gear-wheel 7;, Fig. 11, on the cylinder D meshes with the gear-wheel y of the same size, carrying a pinion, 3 in mesh with a gearwheel, y, three times the size of the pinion y, to cause the latter to make three revolutions to one of the wheel which carries a cam, 3 having a cam-slot, 1 Fig. 2, in its inner face in form like the outline of the cam. The wheel y meshes with a pinion, 1, behind a beveled gear-wheel, y, and corresponding with the pinion y, and a beveled gear-wheel, z, meshes with the wheel g and is carried on one end of a shaft, 2', supported at the side of the frame A to extend forward to the rulingmachine portion, (see Fig. 3,) where it carries a loose beveled gear-wheel, .2, having a clutchblock, 10, on its rear side, to be engaged by a companion clutch-block, w, arranged to turn machine and stopped for purposes of adjust- .ment of the mechanism, or to permit ruling without printing, when the ruling machine may be operated by hand by means of a crank applied to an arbor on the end of the stringroller a.

The cloth E is endless, having the roller u at one extremity and a roller, t, at the opposite extremity, and passes intermediately over other rollers, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, being separated at the roller t from the first of the two rollers s and s, carrying the twisted endless tapes, hereinafter described, for con veying the sheets to the gate in front of the printing-cylinders. The strings E, which are also endless, extend from the roller u along the upper surface of the cloth E and over rollers a and a, the latter being supported above the machine, as shown in Fig. 1. A sheet, d,

fed between the rollers u and a, is carried between the cylinders D and D, (the details of the conveying operation to the printing-cylinders being more definitely described hereinafter,) thence by. sets of endless traveling strings q and q (see Fig. 1) and an endless traveling apron, q, to the delivery-table q. The arrangement of the courses and mechanism for effecting the ultimate delivery to the table (1 forms no part of my invention; hence it is not more accurately described in the present connection, though clearly shown in the drawings.

The impression-cylinder D is provided with a longitudinal recess, 1), at which the ends or edges of the blanket which surrounds it are secured, as shown; and within the longitudinal recess is supported a rock'shaft, F, carrying nippers F, the rock-shaft being held during about one'half of a revolution of the cylinder D to maintain the nippers in the position illustrated in Fig. 14 and during the remainder of such revolution in the position illustrated in Figs. 10 and 12, the turning of the rock-shaft being produced at proper times by a cam device of ordinary construction, for the purpose shown in Fig. 11.

The rollers 8 and s, the latter of which is close to the cylinder D', carry endless tapes G, which are twisted, as shown in Fig. 11, to-

ward the side of the frame A, provided with.

tened end of a'horizontal'rod, if, supported in I 4 hearings on the frame, in which it'is keyed to permit horizontal or longitudinal adjustment of the device with relation to the tapes G, and set-screws which extend through the head 0' against the flattened end of the rodo, permit the socket 0' and strip 0 to be adjusted on a horizontal plane to change its angle with reference to the tapes or true its parallelism with reference theretbx This may be done, on loosening one of the setsorews 0 by turning the strip'o in the desired direction and then tightening the loosened set-screw to set the strip in its adjusted relative position.

Extending across the frame near the roller 8', and above it,-is a rock-shaft, a, carrying centrally between its bearing ends a pair of parallel fingers, a, bearing against the usual bearer, c, on a rod, 0, and forming the ordi nary gate at which a sheet is stopped as it is conveyed against it until the nippers reachthe position shown in Fig. 14, when the fingers I are raised to permit the sheet to be drawn by the nippers around the impression-cylinder to the delivery q. The raising at the proper time of the fingers 12, forming the gate, is ac complished by a cam, a, which, through the medium of an arm, a the end of which engageswith the cam, turns the rock-shaft 'n to raise the gate and hold it up while the sheet is being withdrawn from the tapes'G.

Behind and below the rock-shaftnisarockshaft, m, carrying parallel fingers m, coinciding with the fingers forming the gate and below the latter, which fingers mnormally hear at their curved ends against the sheet on the bearer 0, being only raised at the proper moment to permit the sheet to pass below them against the gate by the action of a cam, m on the end of an arm, m connected with the rock shaft m, to turn the latter and raise the holding-fingers m. These fingers m serve to maintain the sheet straight and smooth while it is being pulled off by the nippers and after it is fed against the gate by the automatic conveyer. As a'sheet fed by the cloth E and strings E reaches the twisted tapes G it may or may not be in proper position to tally with the form on the cylinder D, it being impossible to feed the sheets always with equal accuracy. The twisted arrangement of the tapes serves to guide an inaccurately fed sheet toward the strip 0, which is adjusted with reference to the tapes and form to guide it accurately to the latter.

By twisting the tapes as described and shown, they are caused, owing to the screw form of the conveyor, to act positively and transmit quick and strong lateral motion to the sheets. The same end may be effected, instead of twisting the tapes, by simply slanting them toward the lateral guide or gage H, to do-which, however, is old; butthe action upon the sheets is not positive nor so rapid, and hence not so satisfactory, as the twisted construction, which operates to lift thesheets sidewlse;

The cam 3 serves to oscillate the feeding ink-roller Z alternately against the vibrating roller Z and the roller Z which'takes the ink from the fountain I, and also to turn slowly the fountain-roller Z A bell-crank lever, k, Fig. 2, pivotally supported at its angle, car riesat one end a thirnble, k, which extends into the cam-groove g At its oppositeend the bell-crank lever k is engaged at its head .by a socket, khFig. 4, in a lever, k secured at one end in the slotted extremity of a link, is, secured at its opposite end-to the end of a rockshaft, t, supported in the frame-work for the ink -rollers, and] carrying bifurcated arms i near opposite ends, constituting the journalbearings for the roller 2. on one end a spur-wheel, h, with which a dog, h, is maintained in contact by aspring,-h",the dog and spring being supported on a link, h", pivoted to the ink-roller frame, andslotted toward its lower end, where itcarries a pin, h, to enter a slot in the upper end of a link, h secured at its opposite end, as" shown, eccentrically to the cam y. 4

As the wheel Q13 revolves, and with it'the cam y, it will be seen that the shaft 5, carrying the roller 1, is oscillated with each revolution of the cam alternately into contact with'theroll- The roller Z carries 7 ersl and l and that'with each such 'rev0lu-.

tion the dog h turns the 'roller Z around the extent of one tooth on the wheel h. To dis--- connect the rollers land Z from the cam y, the lever k is lifted to separate its socket k from the head of the bell-crank leverk, and the link it is raised to disconnect its slotted end from the pin h.

- The form-cylinder D(which, like the impression-cylinder, is hollow, for the 'sake'of lightness) is provided longitudinally and transversely with dovetail-grooves, Fig. 5, or only with longitudinaldovetail grooves enlarged transversely at intervals, Fig. 6;and

gaging-lines, as shown, are provided longitudinally and circurnferentially, to afford guides forplacing the forms in position. forms are electrotype-plates K, constructed,

preferably, in accordance with the joint in'veneled' sides to correspond with the dovetail" grooves in the cylinder, and which is inserted into a groove at a point where two of the transverse and circumferential grooves cross each other, or where a transverse enlargement occurs in a longitudinal groove.

When a plate has been accurately adjusted 'on the form-cylinder by the aid of the-guide levers already described, clamps L are inserted at the parts f into the grooves and moved to bring the lips 9 against the edges of the plate, when the screw f, inserted through the part 9' of each clamp, is turned, thereby forcing its end against the base of the groove,which tends to raise the rear end of the clamp (the part f, being confined, acting as a fulcrum) and depress the lip against the edge of the plate, whereby the latter is firmly clamped.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a rotary printingpress and a ruling-machineoperated by and constituting the feed for the printing-press and having its sheet-conveying mechanism disconnected from the printing-cylinders, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a rotary printingpress, 0, and a ruling-machine,.B, geared to the driving mechanism of the printing-press, to constitute it the feed for the said press, and having its sheet'conveying mechanism disconnected from the printing-cylinders, substantiall y as described.

3. The combination of a rotary printingpress, 0, a ruling-machine, B, geared to the driving mechanism of the printing-press, to constitute it the feed for the said press, and having its sheeteonveying mechanism disconnected from the pri nting-cylinders, and a clutch for disengaging the gear-connection between the ruling and printing portions of the device, substantially as described.

4. In a printing-press, 0, having a feed,the combination, with the cylinders, of a lateral guide, H, and traveling tapes G, twisted to convey the sheets toward the lateral guide, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a printing-press, 0, having a feed, B, the combination, with the cylinders, of a laterally-adjustable guide, H, and traveling tapes G, twisted to convey the sheets toward the said guide, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a printing-press, 0, having a feed, B, the combination, with the cylinders, of a lateral guide, H, comprising an adjustable rod,

0", and a strip, 0, adjustably connected with the rod, and traveling tapes G, twisted toward the said strip, substantially as and for-the purpose set forth.

7. The combination of a printing-press, O,

'a' ruling-machine, B, geared 'to the driving mechanism of the printing-press, to constitute it the feed for the said press, and having its sheet-conveying endless cloth and strings disconnected from the printing-cylinders, a lateral guide, H, and rotary rollers s and 8, carrying twisted endless tapes G, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

8. In a rotary printing-press, the combination of a form-cylinder, D, an impression-cylinder, D, carrying oscillatory nippers F, a

guide, H, a conveyer having tapes G, twisted to convey the sheets toward the said guide, a bearer, c, a gate, n, and sheet-holding device 'm, bearing against the bearer c, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

9. In a rotary printing-press, the combination of a form-cylinder, D, having dovetailed grooves in its surface and clamps for securing the forms in place, each comprising the parts 9, g, g, and f, and a set-screw, f, substantially as described. 7

10. In a printing-press, the combination, with the cylinders D and D and fountain I, of a slowly-rotating roller, Z, an oscillating roller, 1, and a slotted link, h, and lever 7:, having a socket, k, for respectively connecting and for separately disconnecting the rollers land P from their actuating mechanism, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

11. In a printing-press, the combination, with the cylinders D and D and fountain I, of a rock-shaft, i, carrying bearings 'i, supporting an ink-roller, l, a' link, k, secured at one end to the rock-shaft i, a bell-crank lever, k, pivotally supported at its angle, a lever, k, secured at one end to the link k and having a socket, k, to fit upon one end of the bellcrank lever, a rotary cam, y, having a camslot, receiving the opposite end of the bellcrank lever and connected with the driving mechanism of the cylinders, a roller, I, carrying on one end a spur-wheel, h, a link, h, carrying a spring-dog, h, held in engagement with the spur-wheel, and a link, k removably connected at one end with the link h and eccentrically connected at its opposite end with the cam a", substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

. JAMES DALE. In presence of- J. W. DYRENFORTH, WM.'A. BRACKETT. 

